The Civil Rights Movement: Leading Voices

The Civil Rights Movement was a direct response to Jim Crow laws in the South and institutionalized racism in the North. As the movement grew, two leaders emerged with different styles and methods, but a shared goal: equality for Black Americans. These two men, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr had a huge impact on the struggle in other marginalized communities, including La Raza, The Asian American Movement, Sovereign Rights (Native American rights), LGBTQ+, and the Women’s Rights Movement; both men remain icons of resistance movements and inspire leaders of all kinds: even moderate and conservative organizations use the tactics of speeches, rallies, marches, and civil disobedience to express their frustration with society and/or government.
The language of this unit is sometimes antiquated and it’s important to recognize that all language changes over time and geography. Some of it is clear, like the n-word or “Negro” which we don’t use anymore unless quoting directly from a text for a specific purpose. An example that might be less obvious, but will come up frequently in this unit, is the term “colored people” which is problematic because it puts skin color ahead of humanity. For this reason, the more appropriate phrase is “people of color,” where “people” can be replaced with person/community/student/etc. In online forums, you’ll sometimes see the abbreviation “POC.” For a humorous defense of how and why language has to be fluid, you can watch the TED Talk “What Makes a Word Real?” (Links to an external site.) https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_curzan_what_makes_a_word_realor for a humorous defense of why some language is used in one community but not another, you can watch Ta-Nehisi Coates’ clip on YouTube.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO15S3WC9pg
Read and listen to one of the speeches, listed below, both of which are included in the Course Reader.
Write 2 paragraphs analysis of how specific words, lines, and/or passages explain the central claim(s), how the ideas are relevant today, and what we might learn from them.
You can take this in any direction you’d like, but I recommend getting pretty narrow and specific under the umbrella of whichever topic you choose. The examples from the Declaration probably apply here also: maybe thinking about access to resources (especially during a pandemic); civil unrest, peaceful protest, and/or insurrection; the calls to reform police departments; the fear of government overreach; inequitable power structures or anything else that catches your eye. There are a wealth of ideas in each of these speeches!
Requirements
You must include at least one direct quote, whether from the original language or the annotation.
Identify the central claim (main idea) of the speech and explain how it is relevant today.
See the attached rubric for grading criteria.
Speeches to choose from
Malcolm X’s speech “The Ballot or the Bullet” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLQLUpNGsc
Martin Luther King Jr’s, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di05SvJ8utI

Developing Your Thesis Statement, Organizing Your Body Paragraphs

Essay 4 Prewriting:
Developing Your Thesis Statement, Organizing Your Body Paragraphs
Directions: Fill in the following outline with information from both pieces to help you find
connections, stay organized, and compile information for your literary synthesis. Make sure to
use your Essay 4 Organizer Chart and other assignments from this unit to help you as you fill
out this outline. Finding the connections between your chosen pieces is a fluid process that
involves a lot of revision. It is likely your thesis statement will change during this process—you
may end up scrapping some main ideas and starting from scratch several times. Be open to
changing your mind throughout the week. The How-To sheets for Essays 1 & 2 will be helpful
to you as you draft because they break down each segment of the paper (MLA, intro, body
paragraph structure, embedding quotes, transitions, & more) into parts and provide helpful
examples and guidelines.
NOTE: I’ve highlighted in yellow what you need to fill out/complete for this assignment. The
examples used throughout this outline are taken from Sample Student Essay (in Tasks for Week
7) which synthesize “The Weeknd And The Future Of Loveless Sex” and “Carly Rae Jepsen
Loves You Back,” from They Can’t Kill Us. Be sure to read through the whole Sample Paper for
a full example of how to successfully approach this assignment.
1. Which 2 Abdurraqib pieces will you compare & contrast? Your choices are
as follows: 1) “The Night Prince Walked on Water” (28-31) & “Ode to Prince”
(spoken-word poem found here, on YouTube); 2) “It Rained In Ohio On The
Night Allen Iverson…” (127-136) & “Serena Williams…” (232-237); 3) Any 2
They Can’t Kill Us essays of your choice, including ones you have already written
about or analyzed for other assignments this semester.
oPiece 1:
oPiece 2:
2. Unified Topic: For your thesis statement, show the overarching connection
between the two pieces by stating their Unified Topic.
o In Sample Paper 4, it is “how love has been devalued and why the
pursuit of true love is worth it”
o YOUR UNIFIED TOPIC:
3. Subtopics: Subtopics help show the unified topic by highlighting more specific
connections between your 2 pieces. To set up the subtopics in your body
paragraphs, take a look at what you have underlined and highlighted on your
Paper 4 Organizer Sheet, and list 2-3 subtopics that you see linking your two
pieces. From the Sample Paper, the subtopics are: 1) “his own experiences with
past relationships” and 2) his “observations of love and lust at concerts”.
1) Both pieces share the following subtopics:
oSubtopic 1:
oSubtopic 2:
oSubtopic 3 (optional, but if you see one, use it!):
2. Thesis Statement: For your thesis statement, state your Unified Topic and the
subtopics you will explore in the body section.
o From the Sample Paper, the thesis statement is: “In his essays “The
Weeknd And The Future Of Loveless Sex” and “Carly Rae Jepsen
Loves You Back,” Abdurraqib uses his own experiences with past
relationships and observations of love and lust at concerts to show
how love has been devalued and why the pursuit of true love is
worth it.”
o Feel free to follow this template: In essay 1 and essay 2,
Abdurraqib uses/explores/relates subtopic 1 and subtopic 2 to show
unified topic.
o YOUR THESIS:
3. Organizing & Analyzing Quotes: Write out quotes from each piece that convey
your subtopics, I’ve included space for 1 quote per piece, per subtopic, but be
sure to compile however many quotes you think may support any given subtopic.
Next, briefly describe how the 2 quotes relate.*For a strong example of this,
please read through the body paragraphs in Sample Paper 4 in this week’s
module—it breaks the subtopic from each essay into its own paragraph:
1) Body Paragraph #1: Covers Subtopic 1 in Piece 1:
oquote:
owhat it means/how it illustrates the subtopic:
ohow it illustrates the unifying topic:
2) Body Paragraph #2: Covers Subtopic 1 in Piece 2:
oquote:
owhat it means/significance
ohow it relates to Piece 1:
ohow it illustrates the unifying topic:

The History of Race – Community 4

Discussion: The History of Race – Community 4
Do you know about the History of Race in America? What do we mean by Systemic Racism?
Many of us grew up with very little information about the history of race n the United States. History books are written by the people in power, and so traditionally, history has presented from a very Eurocentric, male-dominated perspective. We will explore the
Step 1: Watch this (28 minute) Powerpoint Lecture on the History of Race
Here’s a presentation that Janice Townsend (who also teaches at LMC) created about the history of racism.
Here’s what she has to say about it:
“I really wasn’t taught any of this in school. I was miseducated and undereducated in my schooling education. I imagine you were too. Our educational system is designed to perpetuate the myth of the dominant culture.”
Over the next few weeks, we will be examining our education and the myths we were taught and see if we can expand what we know and question what we thought we knew.
Step 4: Post to the Discussion Board
Part 1: ORIGINAL POST: Due by Thursday at 11:59 PM (7/10 Points, 500 Words)
How did the information presented in the video line up with what you were taught about race in schools?
Was there anything you thought you knew (part of the myth) that has been challenged or changed by watching this?
Do you think that American children should be taught this information in school? Why or why not?
Part 2: RESPONSE POST: Due by Sunday at 11:59 PM (3/10 Points)
Respond to other people’s questions or comments on your post if you like.
Read other people’s posts and respond to at least two (but you can respond to as many as you like). Please try to scroll and respond to people who do not already have two comments so that everyone gets to participate.
Include at least two of the following in your post. Be specific:
Compliment: Tell your tablemate something that you enjoy or admire about their post.
Comment: Tell your tablemate something that you found interesting about their post.
Connect: Tell your tablemate something about their post that you can relate to or that it made you think of.
Question: Ask your tablemate a question about their post.
**Remember that everything you need to know about discussion boards can be found at: Discussion Boards: Everything you need to know.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Week 3 Discussion Question: Equal Employment Opportunity
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Describe three ways an organization can promote equal employment opportunity.
Provide a brief scenario illustrating the challenges facing an organization when equal employment practices are not followed.
Please remember – do not only cut and paste from the book. Use critical thinking and specific, thoughtful strategies for implementation.
Grading Criteria
Quantity: At a minimum, post one original 125 word post responding to the main discussion question and two peer response posts of 125 words each for a total of three posts each week (each post must occur on a different day). (3 posts minimum and 3 days of posting minimum.)
Quality: To receive full potential points you must contribute substantive comments that add to the discussions in a thought-provoking way. Explain why you agree or disagree, include details from your professional life and observations, and/or include ideas from the textbook and additional research. Quality posts are ones that are relatively error free, add value, may add new ideas, and explain connections to readings, etc.
Refer to the course syllabus for complete guidelines on discussion participation. I provide comments each week for your learning.

Using the health care law or policy you researched for this week’s learning activity, create a proposal or presentation for continued funding of a related program.: Affordable Care Act

Using the health care law or policy you researched for this week’s learning activity, create a proposal or presentation for continued funding of a related program.: Affordable Care Act

Create two separate proposals, one that addresses liberal viewpoints and one that addresses conservative viewpoints.

Convince each group that continued funding is essential to the well-being of its recipients.

Address the following in each proposal:
The party platform principles
How the program advances the party agenda
Program data related to target population outcomes

*Convince each group that continued
funding is essential to the well-being of
it recipients
Creates two separate proposals,
one addressing liberal viewpoints
and one addressing conservative
viewpoints
30
Writes a compelling argument 40
Addresses party platform
principles
40
Explains how the program
advances each party’s agenda
40
Includes program data related to
target population outcomes
30

Using the health care law or policy you researched for this week’s learning activity, create a proposal or presentation for continued funding of a related program.:
The origins of this “partisanization” of health reform stem largely from a general political polarization and, with it, broader efforts to oppose current Administration policies. They provided the basis for a Republican victory in securing a majority in the House of Representatives in 2010. They fueled continuing calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the health reform law enacted in 2010 and to block its implementation, or at least the implementation of major parts of it. In the 2012 elections, opposition to “the health reform law” was again a rallying cry for Republican candidates at every level.
Health reform has become a partisan and politically polarized issue largely by default. It is disturbing to think that supporting expansion of health care coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans is viewed as solely a “Democratic” position. At the same time, it is difficult not to let this polarization have an impact on how the issues are framed. For example, when I discussed a proposal to reduce federal funding for Medicaid and to turn it into a block-grant program, I characterized it as being proposed by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. That was intended as a statement of fact, not of anti-Republican animus. But I can see how, in the current political environment, it could be perceived otherwise.

Ethnic Images in Film

Each prompt requires you to use Alan Rowe’s essay “Film Form and Narrative” as well as a required course reading “W2 Kandaswamy.” (Attached in files)
You will construct an argument about ‘Pariah’ Film. (Here is the link for the movie: https://ww5.0123movie.net/movie/pariah-18131.html?play=1 )
NOTE: PLEASE HAVE A STRONG THESIS.

1. Settings. Chose a film and make an argument about the significance of its settings. For this topic you will need to identify the film’s different settings and then analyse their meanings. You may want to focus on particular settings such as interiors, parties or celebrations, urban settings, and landscapes. How do different settings frame characters and anchor them in different meanings? How do settings convey information about class, race, gender, sexuality? Does the constructed world or worlds of the film comment on the limits and possibilities of our actual world?

2. Narrative. Rowe suggests that we can begin to analyse many film narratives in terms of an initial equilibrium, then the disruption of that equilibrium, and finally, the establishment of a new equilibrium, different from the equilibrium at the film’s start. Does your chosen film conform to or depart from that narrative structure? How might that narrative structure help us understand the significance of the film’s story? In particular, you may want to focus on the ending. Each film’s ending is relatively open ended. The film endings suggest possible futures for their characters but their subsequent stories aren’t told and we don’t definitively know their fates. What is the meaning of such open-ended conclusions?

3. Respectability Politics. Historically, models of respectability have celebrated heterosexual marriage and reproduction; “normal” gender roles; and respect for and deference to authority. On the one hand, by identifying with such forms of “respectability,” BIPOC communities have countered forms of racism based in ideas about their deviancy and immorality. On the other hand, identifying with respectability has reinforced the very definitions of deviancy and immorality that have been used to depict BIPOC communities as dangerous and disposable. Choose a film and construct an argument about how it represents such contradictions. To what extent does the film challenge respectability politics? How do the filmmakers use the tools discussed by Rowe to represent and comment on “respectability”?

4. Sound. Chose a film and make an argument about its use of sound. According to Rowe, sound can reinforce the continuity of action and link different scenes. Music, in particular, can establish or enhance emotion, or help lead an audience to a particular understanding of a scene. While you could focus on all sorts of sounds, you may want to focus in particular on music. Music can identify characters and attach particular meanings to them (Rowe cites as an example The Godfather, where different kinds of music mark differences of class and nationality between different characters). How is sound used in one of the three films and to what effect? Be sure to draw on not only Rowe but one other assigned reading.

Fertility, Families and Human Migration

Please for this project read the instruction and follow the example that has been posted. You are only doing the annotated bibliography which is only steps 1-5. The steps to take in order to be successful

1. Read the whole book
2. Come up with a hypothesis
3. Pick 6 academic sources that are not more than 10 years old. They have to be economic literature articles from EconLit. (I know the instructions say 10, but the professor says you only need 6 Economic sources from EconLit.
4. Remember the annotated bibliography example is only one economic literature entrie. You need to do that for 5 other papers.
5. Remeber when you are writing this annotated bib, refer to the book and use examples from the book.

Civil Disobedience

The research paper centers on the essay written by Henry David Thoreau titled, Civil Disobedience. The report should be at least five pages in length covering the issues and a personal critique of the work. In addition, the report must also include its relevance to future civil rights and political leaders including, Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

http://www.xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/thoreau/civil.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/mahatma-gandhi-changed-political-protest
https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/mahatma-gandhi-major-movements-that-helped-in-indian-freedom-struggle-1569832149-1
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr
https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/voices-for-human-rights/champions/martin-luther-king-jr.html

Select a typical day in your life as a college student, and keep a journal that focuses on how the local government, state government, and national government each affected your life during that day.

Select a typical day in your life as a college student, and keep a journal that focuses on how the
local government, state government, and national government each affected your life during that
day. This journal should include at least five examples of each level of government. Be sure
to explain how precisely the specific level of government influenced your daily activities. Based
on your relationship with the different levels of government, you will then write a short
reflection paper – approximately 500 words – that discusses which system of federalism you
prefer: Dual Federalism, Cooperative Federalism, or Devolution.

II. ASSIGNMENT RULES AND GUIDELINES:

1) The journal portion must contain a minimum of five entries per level of government, for a
minimum of fifteen total. The reflection essay should be approximately 500 words. Use
the word count function in Word (or a similar function in a different program) to gauge
the appropriate length. Both portions of this assignment constitute your grade.

2) Do not use outside sources. All the information, you need to answer the questions
comes from the assigned readings and lectures. This assignment is not a research paper.
Use of outside sources, particularly online encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, will
significantly lower your grade. USE FROM THIS BOOK ( Paula D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber, American Government in Black and White: Diversity and Democracy, 5th edition Oxford University Press.)

3) The entire paper must be in YOUR OWN WORDS. Do not copy from any of the
readings. Copying from the readings will significantly lower your grade.

4) Pay attention to the rules of Academic Integrity! If you decide to break the rules and
consult outside sources, then failure to cite those sources will result in an academic
integrity sanction, which minimally will be a 0 on the assignment. If you decide to break
the rules and copy from the readings, then failure to provide quotation marks will result
in an academic integrity sanction, which minimally will be a 0 on the assignment. See
the USF Academic Integrity Policy:

https://catalog.usf.edu/content.php?catoid=13&navoid=1578#academic-integrity

5) I strongly encourage students to consult with your TA/Section Leader or me when
writing the paper. You may also use the USF Writing Studio, but if you do, then I
recommend starting early because their appointments fill up quickly. However, students
may not consult with anyone else when writing the paper, including classmates, friends,
co-workers, family members, other relatives, etc. Consulting with an unauthorized
source in any fashion (in person, over the phone, online) is cheating and will result in a
stringent academic integrity sanction, including an FF in the course.

6) Make sure that the paper is well-written. Avoid sloppy mistakes. Writing must be
concise. Consult a style manual to learn the appropriate rules of writing, especially
concerning subject-verb agreement, wordiness, sentence structure, active versus passive
voice, etc. Pay attention to sentence structure. Avoid wordy and redundant language.
Make sure that the paragraph structure is clear. Overly long paragraphs render papers
difficult to read. Each paragraph must contain a topic sentence, with subsequent
sentences supporting that topic sentence. Do not discuss multiple ideas in a single
paragraph.

7) Edit the paper several times. Writing is a gradual process; therefore, it is difficult, if not
impossible, for authors to communicate their ideas in an initial draft. Moreover,
proofread with a critical eye; that is, read the paper as if you are reading someone else’s
work. Do not proofread immediately after finishing a draft. Put the paper aside, and
revaluate it later when your perspective is fresher.

8) Do not wait until the last minute to start!!

9) Submit the entire assignment (the journal and the short essay) in one single file – either
Word or PDF.